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that was the most annoying thing you could find? i see a new thread starting
should have went with this one ( sorry B)
:lol: That would have been a good one!
I wish I had the skills to do that. Too funny.Someone make that toilet bowel blink like the other image, and I'll use it! :lol:
what site had the smile hot linked?
I propose a massive cyber attack!
A bunch of my Phish friends on another message board actually did that one time on a Salt Water Fishing message board. Was pretty hilarious. Inundated their forum with Phish discussion. :lol:
I still don't think it's responding fast enough. Hopefully we can limp through the day. I still plan to move to a dedicated server over the weekend. It was a unique combination of things it seems. Here's the basic rundown:
Well, that's about it. Sorry it's not more entertaining like an anti-AZ DOS conspiracy or something...
- Normal seasonal traffic increase. We're right at the limit of the semi-dedicated server we're on so the site is inherently a bit "sensitive" already. Many of you might remember early season issues in the past as traffic starts to ramp up. Traffic is significantly less in the off-season.
- I discovered some other sites where AZ smiles are being hotlinked. I'm still working with these forum admins to get them removed. One site is very high traffic and it's my guess that someone hotlinked the smile into their sig so each time one of their posts is called, it hits the AZ server to retrieve the image. I've since replaced the image and they now get this. That's the most annoying image I could find. :lol: Hopefully, that will encourage them to remove it. Once I've confirmed they have, I'll be enabling hotlink protection so this doesn't happen again.
- A script I was using called vbSEO. It's a search engine optimization script that does a number of things including prettying up the forum URLs. You might notice those are gone as I disabled the script since it is a resource hog anyway, and really eats server resources when hotlinking is involved. I might take a bit of a hit in terms of search engine referrals until all the forum URLs are reindexed, but it had to be done.
- During all the various efforts in troubleshooting this, I managed to break a lot of things along the way. .htaccess files across several subdomains can be a real bitch to manage. I still have to fix the news portal home page, but everything else seems to be working. Please contact me if you see anything screwed up.
Anyway, sorry for the downtime, and I can't promise the site won't drop again, but I hope by the end of the weekend, we'll be flying right along on our own server.
I still don't think it's responding fast enough. Hopefully we can limp through the day. I still plan to move to a dedicated server over the weekend. It was a unique combination of things it seems. Here's the basic rundown:
Well, that's about it. Sorry it's not more entertaining like an anti-AZ DOS conspiracy or something...
- Normal seasonal traffic increase. We're right at the limit of the semi-dedicated server we're on so the site is inherently a bit "sensitive" already. Many of you might remember early season issues in the past as traffic starts to ramp up. Traffic is significantly less in the off-season.
- I discovered some other sites where AZ smiles are being hotlinked. I'm still working with these forum admins to get them removed. One site is very high traffic and it's my guess that someone hotlinked the smile into their sig so each time one of their posts is called, it hits the AZ server to retrieve the image. I've since replaced the image and they now get this. That's the most annoying image I could find. :lol: Hopefully, that will encourage them to remove it. Once I've confirmed they have, I'll be enabling hotlink protection so this doesn't happen again.
- A script I was using called vbSEO. It's a search engine optimization script that does a number of things including prettying up the forum URLs. You might notice those are gone as I disabled the script since it is a resource hog anyway, and really eats server resources when hotlinking is involved. I might take a bit of a hit in terms of search engine referrals until all the forum URLs are reindexed, but it had to be done.
- During all the various efforts in troubleshooting this, I managed to break a lot of things along the way. .htaccess files across several subdomains can be a real bitch to manage. I still have to fix the news portal home page, but everything else seems to be working. Please contact me if you see anything screwed up.
Anyway, sorry for the downtime, and I can't promise the site won't drop again, but I hope by the end of the weekend, we'll be flying right along on our own server.
Someone make that toilet bowel blink like the other image, and I'll use it! :lol:
Simply awesome.DONE!!
Keep in mind a LOT of AZers source images and smilies from other web sites all the time...what site had the smile hot linked?
I propose a massive cyber attack!
Keep in mind a LOT of AZers source images and smilies from other web sites all the time...
I might take a bit of a hit in terms of search engine referrals until all the forum URLs are reindexed, but it had to be done.